Author: Lord Chesterfield; Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title: Characters by Lord Chesterfield Contrasted with Characters of the Same Great Personages by Other Respectable Writers. Also Letters to Alderman George Faulkner, Dr. Madden, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Derrick, and the Earl of Arran
Description: London, Edward and Charles Dilly, 1778. Leather. A very scarce enlarged edition of the biographical sketches of the Earl of Chesterfield, relating his personal opinions on various eminent figures of his day. A very scarce volume of biographical sketches on eminent people of his own time by the Earl of Chesterfield, an enlarged edition.ESTC citation number T161338. Portraits in this work include George I, George II, Queen Caroline (who hated Stanhope), Lord Townshend, Alexander Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, Robert Walpole, Lord Granville, William Pitt, and more.Each biographical sketch is accompanied by quotes of other eminent people of the time, expressing their personal opinions. This volume also included a choice collection of fifteen letters from Chesterfield to Alderman George Faulkner, Dr. Madden, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Derrick, and the Earl of Arran.Philip Dormer Stanhope was a statesman, diplomat, and man of letters, this work not published until after his death. In a quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally, a little rubbed, with a small amount of loss to the rear joint and head of the spine. Light marks and spots to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Spots to the endpapers. A small patch of worming to the head of the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with the occasional scattered spot. Puncture marks to the gutter. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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